Highlight differences between geo db passwords
What does this MR do?
There's always been confusion among customers about gitlab_rails['db_password']
and postgresql['sql_user_password']
postgresql['sql_replication_password']
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The most common confusion being whether these passwords should be the same, with one being md5 encrypted. I think people get thrown off because it doesn't make sense to have a plaintext and encrypted password in the same file.
We do have an open issue to fix this but just for now I would like to add a note to the docs to clarify the behavior.
I've also updated several of the examples so it's easier to follow.
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